Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

The speculation last month was that the new Apple Store app would be available last week and introduce a new way to shop in the physical Apple Store. It emerged a few days later than anticipated. But, here it is now. Version 2.0 of the Apple Store (iTunes link) app. The new app goes way [...]

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Apple’s physical retail stores started out with a traditional checkout register format that created long slow lines during peak buying seasons. Then, the stores started using mobile checkout devices based on, ironically, Microsoft Windows CE. More recently, Apple Store staff switched to specially equipped iPod touch units to take payments from anywhere in the store. [...]

Siri is not only one of the most talked about features on the new iPhone 4S, but it’s also one of the most talked to features. Everyone is talking to Siri, asking her useful questions about the weather, directions and more. But a funny spoof of Apple’s Siri commercial, brought to you by Conan, reveals what people are really asking Siri about. And it’s not pretty.

Everyone is talking about Siri—the amazing new mobile assistant that comes built in to every iPhone 4S. We’ve decided to compile ten of the most popular Siri videos. Check them all out after the jump.

As the lines between console and mobile continue to blur, Apple’s eyes remain fixated on conquering the living room experience. Its introduction of AirPlay Mirroring could be a key blow to console makers like Sony and Microsoft who are still trying to gain traction on the mobile frontier. The plethora of content on Apple’s App Store combined with portable devices could be the reason why Apple will be the first to deliver a seamless gaming experience. More after the jump.

Infographic World has released a new infographic, ‘Farewell To A Genius’, that looks back on Steve Jobs life, starting with his birth in 1955 and touching on all of the major events in his life, including work, family life, quotes and more, all the way up to his death on October 5, 2011.

It may be easy to pass Siri off as another voice recognition application but its domain stretches beyond AI algorithms, continual learning and contextually aware systems. The new Siri stands tall as Apple’s flagship feature to its iPhone 4S and for good reasons. More after the jump.

iOS updates for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are usually slow but steady and predictable events with occassional problems reaching update servers. This, however, is not the case with iOS 5 update today. The first clue was “restore” error message I saw after trying to update my iPhone 4. You can see what this [...]

Last week the world was shaken by the news that Steve Jobs had died and the first place that many people turned to express their sorrows and celebrate Jobs’ life was social media. Social media monitoring tool Meltwater Buzz put together a word cloud identifying the top themes and words that people used to remember Steve Jobs on social networks.

The world lost a technology pioneer who remained a mover and shaker until the very end this past Wednesday. It seems fitting, then, that my final mobile technology related post of the week is a free app for the iPhone.